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The Call to Adventure The potential hero may receive his Call in a variety of similar ways: • The town leaders may select the initiate and order him to face danger so that his village can be saved from an evil fate like disease or famine.

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The initiate may go willingly or may be forced by circumstance to go on the quest.

The Call is a realization of an imbalance or injustice. The Call often comes when something has been taken away from the potential hero's or family or society. Similarly, the initiate might begin a journey because of a mistake — something is lost and he must find it.

The Call may be a sensation on the part of the hero that something is lacking in his or her life and that he or she must search for what is missing.

Another type of Call comes when the hero realizes that society is being denied something, and he or she goes on a quest to win rights for the people. Sometimes it is nothing more than the need to save honor.

This first stage of the mythological journey — which we have designated the "call to adventure" — signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown.

This fateful region of both treasure and danger may be variously represented: as a distant land, a forest, a kingdom underground, beneath the waves, or above the sky, a secret island, lofty mountaintop, or profound dream state; but it is always a place of strangely fluid and polymorphous beings, unimaginable torments, superhuman deeds, and impossible delight.

The hero can go forth of his own volition to accomplish the adventure . . . or he may be carried or sent abroad by some benign or malignant agent. . . . The adventure may begin as a mere blunder . . . or still again, one may be only casually strolling when some passing phenomenon catches the wandering eye and lures one away from the frequented paths of man. (p. 58)